[Header photo: Sri Lanka,  © Anthony Hughes]

Anthony Hughes and photography

Photography has been an integral part of my career. It has been one of the key mediums that I have worked in with clients to develop projects, project documentation, public learning development, and governmental/NGO public awareness projects.

Many of the photographs shown here, for example; from India, Nepal and Bali were originally for client-based international projects.

Apart from the aesthetic, representational and pictorial nature of photography, I’m interested in the semiological, ethical, philosophical and theoretical considerations that surround it (ref. Sontag, Barthes, Berger et al). 

How the photographer’s perspective and personal and creative narratives can give rise to ambiguous representation of cultural, national and social identity and create misleading narratives based around the photographer’s own cultural and/or political and social biases and conditioning.